Pentavus
Chapter 6
Jordan could sense it.
He knew that something was wrong before he heard the alarm. Before he heard Mottè over the speaker, calling for an evacuation of Pentavus. Before he heard the screams.
Something was wrong.
Jordan could sense it. He leapt out of bed and quickly dressed. As he was about to step outside his quarters, the alarm went off. On reflex, he grabbed his gun and ran to the other rooms to gather his team. Within five minutes they were ready to go.
However, Jordan had a feeling that they would be five minutes too late.
As they sprinted along the corridor, they noticed the many Yaren bodies littering the floor. The air smelled of death, mixed together with...something else he couldn't recognize.
They arrived in the control room minutes later. Mottè was there, intercom microphone in his hand. He looked very pale and his purple-red eyes looked greenish.
"Shawn Jordan..." he croaked, "The time has come..."
Jordan dropped his gun and rushed to Mottè's side. "What happened, Mottè?"
"Our enemies have dropped a gas bomb onto Pentavus...a molecular compound that deteriorates out immune and motor skill systems. We die within minutes of breathing it in. It is too—" He began to cough. When his fit subsided, he looked at George, Hallie and Shawn. "I grant you the powers of my people."
Jordan suddenly felt a rush of thought. This was not his thought, though. He was feeling the emotions of others. Sadness and helplessness from Hallie. Confusion from George. And grim determination from Mottè.
Then he heard something in his mind. Mottè's voice rang clear: Find the Oratrion, the oracle of the universe. He resides on the planet P7X-BB3. I wish you the best of luck. Farewell.
Jordan had barely begun to sort his mind out when Mottè, in the leather chair, went rigid. He was dead.
Shawn looked up from his fallen friends with watery eyes. Mottè had foreseen all of this, but he had not expressed the magnitude of the destruction that would be wrought on Pentavus.
He looked up at the team. "George, Hallie, and I are now Pentavus-1. We are going to see this...Oratrion. Hallie, figure out how this DHD works. Then let's go."